Wellencraft Interview: Musical Instruments from Atlantic and Pacific Coasts of Colombia
This time we bring you a very special interview. Join us on this beautiful journey with percussionist Alexander Duque and Francisco Agustín Tenorio (founder of the "Tumac Foundation") about the instruments of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of Colombia, their origin, their construction, their performance in music and dance, and a view at the ensembles of these instruments.
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00:00 Intro
00:09 Presentation
00:24 Talking about drums in Colombia
00:52 Origins and Influences
01:18 Comparing Drums from Pacific and Atlantic Coasts of Colombia
01:50 Drums and their Dances
02:34 Materials for the Manufacture of Drums
05:44 Instrument Families and their Ensembles
07:33 Rhythms of Colombia's Atlantic and Pacific coasts
08:00 Outro
Wellencraft:
Wellencraft is a company that develops Sample Libraries, Virtual Instruments and Plugins for music and sound creation. We also offer a boutique Production Music Library for Film, TV and Video Games.
New World Collection:
The New World Collection is a growing series of sample libraries dedicated to the musical instruments of the “New World” (mundus novus), named “America” after Amerigo Vespuccio.
Credits:
Music by Jorge Porras
Video by Wellencraft
Footages:
Wellencraft footages by Angie Mesa, Yadira Porras, José David Duque, Joshua Porras, Jorge Porras
Footages in Tumaco: Jorge Porras - Field Work 2010
for the Master's thesis in Musicology (tbc)
Mainz University, Germany
"Congolaise" - by Jacques Dupont
Used under the Public Domain License: Public Domain Mark 1.0 Creative Common
https://archive.org/details/Congolaise
"Columbia" - by Dr. Harry B. Wright
Screenshots used under the kind permission of the Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Penn Museum)
https://archive.org/details/upenn-f16...
Images:
"Syntagma musicum" - Michael Praetorius
II: De Organographia (Wolfenbüttel 1619)
Used under the Public Domain License
"Orchésographie" - Arbeau, Thoinot
Langres: Iehan des Preyz, 1596
Used under the Public Domain License
"Modo di ballare" - Girolamo Benzoni
Venice, Appresso Francesco Rampazetto 1565
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ca...
Used under the Public Domain License
"Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto" - by SolReyes
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
SolReyes, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons
"Santiago Ospino en el estudio de grabación del IPC" - by Alex Duque
in "Magín y Santiago en el patio del IPC" Alexander Duque and Jorge Porras
Páginas de Cultura Nr.7, 2012
"Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto" - by SolReyes
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
SolReyes, CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons
"Petrona Martínez" - by Archivo Particular, Seguimiento.co
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Archivo Particular, Seguimiento.co, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons